James Cameron's 'Titanic' Turns 20: Our Top Movie Quotes Rated

In celebration of James Cameron, Celine Dion, Jack and Rose and the haunting legacy of the RMS Titanic on the film's 20th anniversary, we selected some of our favorite quotes — and rated them.

By Bio Staff, Dec 19, 2017

Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) in a scene from 'Titanic.'

"Near! Far! Wherever you are... I believe that the heart does, go onnnn!" croons the lioness Celine Dion, as part of the weepy theme song "My Heart Will Go On" in the 1997 romance-disaster flick Titanic.

Hard to believe it's already been 20 years since director James Cameron made us embrace the ugly cry as we watched the perfectly privileged Rose (Kate Winslet) and dashing poor boy Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) fall madly in love amid a ship destined to dash their dreams (and over 1,500 others on board) into the icy waters of the Atlantic. Jack, come back!

At the time, Titanic was the most expensive film ever made, with a price tag of $200 million. But the studios had no reason to lose a life boat over the hefty sum: Cameron's film was a box office juggernaut, initially earning over $1.8 billion and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, until Cameron's next epic film, Avatar, bumped it to second place in 2010. Titanic also won 11 Academy Awards, tying Ben Hur for the most wins for one film. Tewti, is what we have to say about that! [Tewti means "wow" in Na'vi, the made-up language they speak in Avatar, which Cameron wincingly dared to speak at the Golden Globes that year.]

In celebration of James Cameron, Celine Dion, Jack and Rose and the haunting legacy of the RMS Titanic, we selected some of our favorite quotes and rated them like so:

Tingles= Evoking goosebumps

Cheese= Lame

Waah!= Ugly cry

Bam!= Major diss

"Everybody called it the ship of dreams, and it was. It really was." - Old Rose (Rating: Tingles)